James Roosevelt Bayley

James Roosevelt Bayley (23 August 1814-3 October 1877) was Bishop of Newark from 1853 to 1872, preceding Michael A. Corrigan, and Archbishop of Baltimore from 1872 to 1877, succeeding Martin John Spalding and preceding James Gibbons.

Biography
James Roosevelt Bayley was born in New York City, New York on 23 August 1814, a distant relative of Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin D. Roosevelt. He was raised an Episcopalian Protestant, and he became an ordained priest in 1840, becoming a priest in Harlem. However, he became acquainted with the Catholic priest John McCloskey, and he was baptized a Catholic in 1842. In 1844, he became a Catholic priest, and he was consecrated the first bishop of the diocese of Newark, New Jersey in 1853. He introduced the Jesuits to his diocese, and he upheld the temperance movement. From 1872 until his death in 1877, he served as Archbishop of Baltimore, but he died in his former diocese of Newark.